Re: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl?

If you can persuade the Wx module to install on your system (WxWidgets does work on Mac, so it should theoretically, and according to the CPAN testers service there are successful install reports from Mac OS X), then you could investigate my Ask module. It's as simple as:

use Ask qw( file_selection info );

my $file = file_selection("Please choose a file!");
info("You chose: $file");
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Then Ask does the rest. If the user has run your script through the Mac terminal, Ask should detect this, and to input and output via the terminal. If they've launched your script by, say, double clicking it in Finder, it will notice there's no terminal and interact with the user via dialog boxes.

I do keep meaning to write a blogs.perl.org post about Ask.

Update: blog post written... Ask not what your user can do for you...

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2013 at 09:44 UTC
I don't know how often i failed to install Wx on different platforms... Last try: Read more... (4 kB) It's slightly annoying... Best regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2013 at 11:09 UTC
It's slightly annoying... :) if you ain't gonna look at the logs and figure it out, just get the binaries :) http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Alien-wxWidgets/ ( foolish timeout Timeout (max run time is 1200s) ) http://www.citrusperl.com/	[reply]
Re^4: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2013 at 11:49 UTC
I'm not using ActivePerl on my Mac. Anyway, at the provided link i see "The build failed on this platform...". Nothing new. And i'm not using citrusperl. I mentioned my OS as well as my perl version in my post. So i'm wondering how to get this things together. Thank you very much for any hint and best regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]
Re^5: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2013 at 12:20 UTC
Re^6: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jan 21, 2013 at 10:22 UTC
Re^5: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2013 at 12:23 UTC


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